Today’s Scripture: Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14 ESV   I love to pray to God in the coolness of a spring morning accompanied by the melodies of song birds. Are these birds singing out of instinct, praise or need? Probably some of all I ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. Matthew 7:20 ESV What will you be known and remembered by? Matthew was issuing a warning to us here about recognizing false prophets. However, we do not want to be false prophets either. The Holy Spirit of God guides us even if we do not recognize where we are going or where we ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19 ESV   Paul was attempting to explain this mystery to the Ephesians over two thousand years ago and this is mostly still a mystery today. Do we really grasp what being filled with the fullness of ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Isaiah 64:8 ESV: But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. We are all the work of God’s hand. Do we trust His hand or ours? Do we trust the clay or the Potter? The LORD, our Father, has and is shaping us. We cannot trust our perception of the current ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV Can you trust that EVERYTHING will be made beautiful in its time? Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that there is a time for everything and that everything will ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed. Luke 17:14 ESV (all emphasis is mine)   “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us” was the cry of the ten lepers in the previous verse. Jesus told them to go and they were cleansed as they went.   We can learn ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required Luke 2:27 NIV   Right here, right now you and I are where God wants us. Like Simeon, I have no doubt that the Spirit has moved me here. Like Mary and Joseph I also know that ... Continue Reading »